Broom-holder.



No. 765,633. A PATBNTBD JULY 19, 1904.

G.B.P0PE.

BRooM HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

, l: f I If' /VN Z ufff/ Patented July 19, 1904.

PATENT OEEICE.

CHARLES E. POPE, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BROOM-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 765,633, dated July 19, 1904.

Applicatll flld January 29, 1904. Serial No. 191,079. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. POPE, a citi- Zen of the United States of America, and a resident of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Broom- Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved holder for brooms, tools, or other objects, and has for its purpose the provision of a holder which is of the utmost simplicity of construction and efficiency and convenience of operation.

The invention consists in parts formed and combined substantially as hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved holder illustrated asin use for the retention of a broom. Eig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation of the holder. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view as taken on the line 3 3, Fig. 2.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

The device is constituted by a metallic support or holder A, which may be of flat sheet metal having an end portion thereof forwardly bent to constitute an'abutment a, such abutment having a curved form to conform more or less to the cylindrical shape of a broom or tool handle.

B represents a pawl which in the present instance is shown as constituted by a flat strip of sufciently rigid metal having an extremity thereof looped to constitute an eye, as represented at b, while the end of this pawl oppo- A site the loop end is of concave form, as reprepart comprising the slotted head 10, the cylindrical shank portion 12, which has its position within the loop or eye of the pawl, and the attenuated screw-shank 13, which enters through and beyond an aperture 14 in the holderplate, screwing into the woodwork, which makes any suitable support in which the device is mounted.

It will be observed that the length of the cylindrical unthreaded portion 12 is slightly longer than the distance through the eye of the pawl, the shoulder 15 coming to a seat against the face of the plate, as drawn thereto by the screw action of the extremity 13, while the head 10 prevents the pawl from displacement.

The plate has the bottom forwardly-projecting lip f (shown in dotted lines in Eig. 3) and the top forwardly-projecting lip g, the former supporting the pawl from falling below its normal position, (represented in Eig. 2,)

while the upper lip prevents the pawl from being overthrown at a time when the broom may be, perhaps, too forcibly brought into engagement in the holder.

In addition to the fastening for the devicehead by the threaded extremity 13 of the pivot-stud a screw 16 may be employed, substantially as shown.

In disuse the parts will have the relation represented by full lines in Fig. 2, and when the broom is to be engaged in the holder its upper end is brought against the lower surface of the pawl near its free end and moved upwardly and slid through the space between the upwardly-swung pawl and the abutment e, and then by permitting the broom to have a descending movement the pawl following the broom, by reason of its gravity, will by its end edge engage and bite into the side of the broom-handle and retain the same, as represented in Fig. 1.

The parts manifestly may be cheaply and rapidly constructed and easily assembled, and there is no necessity for nicety in manufacture or adjustment of` the parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a device of the character described, aplate having an end portion forwardly bent to constitute an abutment, and having upper and lower forwardly-projecting lips, a pawl composed of a strip of Hat metal provided with a of the screw and prevent binding of the head IO loop at one end, a screw having a head, a oyon the pawl.

lindrioal shank next thereto, upon which the Signed by Ine at Springiield, Massachusetts, lop (f dthe paWl is arranffned,1 and a soreW- this 18th day of January, 1904.

5 tirea e extremity of sma er ciameter than y the cylindrical shank extended through an (JHARIfEb E' POPE' aperture in and beyond the plate, said oylin- Vitnesses: drical shank forming a shoulder Which en- WM. S. BEL'LOWS, gages the plate to limit the inward movement A. V. LEAHY. 

